St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources

A WITNESS in the Haddock murder trial
at Sioux City, Ia, testified on the I'd that
he saw Leavitt fire the fatal shot.
SECRETARY LAMAR has asked FOR troops
to be sent to Oklahoma to keep out the
threatened invasion of boomers this
spring.
REVOLUTIONARY movements in Bulgaria
are becoming alarmingly frequent, the
hands of Russian emissaries being plainly
visible wherever trouble occurs.
Mrs. GENERAL LOGAN is said to have
turned authoress, a novel from her pen
on Washington society beng in readiness
to 60 into the hands of the printer.
NEWS of disasters to sealing vessels Off
Newfoundland continues to be received,
and it is estimated that the loss of life
will aggregate several hundred persons.
IT is the opinion in European diplomatic
circles that the Car of Russia will soon
be driven into war if for no other reason
than to divert the attention of internal 2g-
itators
DELEGATES representing the milling in
terests of Scotland met at Glasgow on the
4th and passed resolutions demanding of
the government the imposition of the duty
upon foreign -four.
A CONFERENCE composed of delegations
representing the British colonial posses
s,ons opened in London on the 4th. Lord
Salisbury, British prime minister, gave
his views on imperial federation.
The latest figures on the election N
Michigan place the Republican plurality
on the State ticket at about 5000, while
OH the prohibitorv amendment the oppo-
sition majority will be about $50.
AN amin ated scene was witnessed on
the 4th in the British House of Commons
because Of some severe structures used
by member on the Speakers conduct in
connection with the cloture debate.
KATKoFF, editor Of the Moscow Ga
sette. has been condemned to death by the
executive committee of the revolution
lists at St. Petersburg He has received
his death warrant, duly signed and coun-
tersignel.
EMPHATIC denlals are made Of the re-
ports of ex-Secretary Manning's serious
illness in England. He is said to have
greatly improved since his arrival in Lon
don. At last accounts he was staying at
Meridale Hall. Eournemouth.
The President has appointed George
W. Gordon, of Tennessee, to be commits
sioner to select diminished reservation
for the confederated bands Of Cayuse,
Walla Walla and Umatilla Indians, vice
George R. Pearsons, resigned.
THE Evangelical Missionary Society Of
Basic, Switzerland, has purchased the
Baptist missionary settlement on Ambas
bay, West Africa, and has surrendered the
same to the German authorities in the
CAMERON, England conserving.
M. BARrHoLDI arrived in London on the
5th for the purpose of rendering to the
officers of the American exhibition the
use Of large model of New York harbor,
as seen from ships deck, with a prolni-
nent replica Of the statue of Liberty.
w. A. CLARK, the registry clerk in the
general post-office at New York, who re-
Gently confessed to the theft of $1,000 in
bills, and who was released on $500 bail,
has skipped for Canada. He had con-
fessed to stealing about $4,000 altogether.
II the New Jersey House on the 9Th
resolution protesting against the coercion
attempted by England against Ireland
and expressing sympathy with Gladstone
and Parne1l and their followers in their
struggles and efforts against such an act
was adopted.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
is going to have its hands full. Georgia
representatives, who were first to tender
congratulations on the passage of the
bill, are also first to discover that the
necessarily revised freight tariffs are go
ing to work ruin to tn Southern shippers.
THE total redemption of trade dollars,
according to the latest returns, amounts
to $3,S75, 73J. TIL, redemptions are slow
and indicate that there are less of those
coins in existence than was first supposed.
1t is now thought that the entire redemp-
tions will not exceed $6,000,O)0 or ST.
900, 900.
GENERAL CHARLES J. PAINE, of Boston,
owner Of the Mayf1ower. has decided to
build steel center board yacht, about the
size of the Mayfower, to defend the Amer
ica's cup. She will be smooth scanned,
both above and below the water-line.
Mr. Edward Burgess is now at work On
her lines.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has decided to Or
der that the historic battleship Kearsarge
be repaired at Portsmouth, N. H., despite
the fact that the old vessel is almost worn
out, The decision encourages naval Off
GERS to hope that the Hartford, another Of
the famous wooden vessels, will be kept
atioat as long as possible.
The Secretary Of the Interior has issued
rules for the government of the Yellow
stone Park. These rules prohibit the kill
ing Of game, catching of fish, cutting of
timber, DETACHMENT of geysers, and sell
ing OF liquors within the boundaries of
the park, and seek, by their strict enforce
ment to preserve thu natural beauty Of
the park
Tue identity of Wm Kissane the fu-
gitive New YORK forger, who disappeared
over thirty years ago, seems to be settled
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